Multimedia Environment for Real-Time Collaborative E-Business

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Abstract

In distributed applicatios such as teleconferences, a group
of multiple processes are cooperating, where messages ex
changed among the processes are required to be causally
delivered. The processes are exchanging kinds of mul
timedia objects in addition to traditional text data. We
present multimedia infrastructure that integrates continu
ous real-time media streams within the WWW. B2B real
time collaborative applications require participants to ex
change real-time audio and video information over a com
munication network. This ﬂow of information must pre
serve the causal dependency. We discuss a protocol to
causally deliver multimedia objects in a group of multiple
processes. We believe that the presented infrastructure will
offer new opportunities for Web services.